Fifteen Quotes

• I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Hair
  • Pink
  • Fifteen

• Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Environmental
  • Pollution
  • Fifteen

• When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • School
  • History
  • Awards

• With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
  • Made
  • Lasts
  • Critics

• I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Hands
  • Laughing
  • Various

• Being fifteen is a blessing and a curse. It does bring you more attention when you’re young, and you’re doing things that grown people do.

  

  The Kid LAROI
  • Attention
  • Grown
  • Fifteen

• Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

  

  James T. Farrell
  • Fifteen
  • Verge
  • Studs Lonigan

• What I recommend is this: after you've talked to everybody, go take a nap! Take a nap. Your body really needs to sleep. It's like washing your face. If you can't afford a three-hour nap, do a one-hour nap. If you can't afford a one-hour nap, do half an hour. If you can't afford half an hour, do fifteen minutes.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Sleep
  • Body
  • Faces

• Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • College
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Materials

• Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • May
  • Book
  • Reading

• I'm off for a quiet pint - followed by fifteen noisy ones.

  

  Gareth Chilcott
  • Followed
  • Fifteen

• I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Home
  • Mistake
  • Conscious

• I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Book
  • Taken
  • Sentences

• I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Teaching
  • Authority
  • Fifteen

• I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Trust
  • Heaven
  • Minutes

• I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Fifteen

• Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Successful
  • Shows
  • Hours

• Now it's been fifteen years, nine games, and an enormous blast to undertake. If it were my choice, I would do this role forever. To hear anyone else's voice coming from Snake's battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest.

  

  David Hayter
  • Choice
  • Honest
  • Role

• Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

  

  Charles Chilton Moore
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Hundred

• Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Riding
  • Fifteen
  • Broomsticks

• History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Darkness
  • Lasts

• Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

  

  Nick Robinson
  • Age
  • Adult
  • Fifteen